News, Events & Comments

On July 27th at Main and Danforth intersection TorontotheBetter was pleased to meet and support Acorn Canada volunteers Kelly, Ernie, and Beulah and Acorn organizer Shehrin. As husing costs continue to soar, made worse by the COVID pandemic, more Torontonians find it harder to meet their basic needs, shelter being the most basic of all. TorontotheBetter recognises the work of Acorn Canada and calls on all to join them in their campaign to ban evictions and construct long overdue affordable housing.

It's time to cancel Dundas from the multiple streets that bear the name of Scottish aristocrat Henry Dundas in several locations in Toronto and the GTA. His "contribution" to Canadian history was an attempt to delay legislative progress toward the end of slavery in the British parliament that governed Canada in the early 1800's and beyond. TorontotheBetter's suggestion for a replacement name: Meegwetch or Miigwetch (thankyou in the Algonquin language), that is a big thankyou for ridding us of the name of an opponent of human progress towards freedom from slavery. To learn more about the Algonquin language of the people whose land we stand on in Toronto see https://omniglot.com/writing/algonquin.htm

It’s a hard life, hyping and hustling , but especially hard when you’re charged for doing what hypers and hustlers like Allen Wesselberg and father of Donald, Fred Trump, have to do - https://www.politicalopinion.com/in-case-against-trumps-company-echoes-of-his-fathers-tactics-on-taxes/- it’s what makes them Great, and rich. It must feel like a bit of an "injustice" to such folk to be arraigned for what you’re hired and stroked for doing as a job. Of course it’s the details that get you into legal trouble, not the basic principle. Cheating and stealing are matters of degree for the law as it stands in countries where certain forms of cheating and stealing are ok. So, spare a thought for the pilloried Trump family and cronies... On the other hand, maybe not.